Alex Mbonabi Ilukena Christina Utete The emergence and outbreak of the novel coronavirus set the whole world at a standstill and shut down all the facets of life disrupting day-to-day activities inclusive of Namibia. The disease, initially observed in Wuhan city, Hubei province in China and declared a global pandemic, a public health emergency of...
It is with so much sadness and regrets that I have to observe the continued silence of the DKC on the deliberate omission of the Damaran from the Genocide Talks.
Covid-19 brought us to a standstill once in our lifetime and now we had to align all we do to a new normality to be able to face it head on.
The legalisation of abortion is a heated argument that has been going on for a reasonable amount of time now.
The Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Peya Mushelenga, on Wednesday tabled the Access to Information Bill, which will remove one of the obstacles that have been hampering Namibian journalists from accessing critical information when they rightly want to inform the public.
As Africans, we have always known the term solidarity long before the arrival of our coloniser who came and taught it back to us the hard way.
I refer to the editor’s guest letter by Dr Bernard Haufiku of Friday 22 May 2020, in The Namibian newspaper, which
reads “Setting up a National Health Service”.
History repeats itself. President Hage G. Geingob commenced his second term in the same manner in which he commenced the first – with a crisis.
From this side of the Atlantic Ocean, the Landless People’s Movement (LPM) firmly denounces the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police Department and demand full and uncompromising justice for his family.
Recently, social media has been abuzz with disquieting extracts of articles, blogs and video clips portraying the Ovahimba/Ovaherero people as perverts who offer free sex to cousins and best friends – so much so that one blogger jokingly mocked: “if you want free sex, go to Namibia.”